Children line up to take a dive in a swimming pool in the southern German town of Denzlingen. Temperatures in Germany are forecast to remain high during the next few days with occasional thunderstorms on the weekend. (Patrick Seeger/AFP/Getty Images)

US First Lady Michelle Obama and US Ambassador Louis Susman (L) meets Queen Elizabeth II during a reception at Buckingham Palace a reception for Heads of State and Government attending the Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, England. (Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

A displaced Congolese lady and her child walk past a retreating government army tank in the village of Rugari, around 37km from Goma, following an alleged ambush by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s restive North Kivu province on July 26, 2012. This area has seen heavy fighting over the past three days, displacing thousands of people and increasing fears of a move by M23 on the provincial capital. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)

Hot air balloons glow during the International Balloon Fiesta in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on July 26, 2012. Within the coming four days more than 40 hot air balloons and airships participate in the festival. (Hendrik Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Rescuers pile sandbags along a riverbank to prevent another flooding in the worst-hit area of Fangshan, on Beijing’s mountainous southwestern outskirts July 26, 2012. Distraught residents have been reporting cars being swept away and have said many people are still missing. The death toll from the worst rains to hit Beijing in more than 60 years has risen to 77, China’s official Xinhua news agency said, more than doubling previous figures. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A US Army Honor Guard (R) is inspected as his Sergeant(L) oversees the change over the duty of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier shortly before the start of the “Heroes Remembered” commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice in the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery July 27, 2012, in Arlington,Virginia. The Armistice was signed in Panmunjom, Korea, July 27th, 1953, after three years of bloody fighting between the US-led United Nations, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

Martha Kegel, executive director of UNITY of Greater New Orleans, stands in front of graffiti on a blighted building in mid-city, Thursday July 12, 2012. Founded in 1992, UNITY is a nonprofit leading a collaborative of 60 organizations providing housing and services to the homeless. (David Grunfeld/MCT)

Luis Gomez Rodriguez, 55, reacts as he tries to sell tissues to drivers at a street corner in central Madrid. Gomez Rodriguez has been working on that very same corner for the past six years. “On a good day I make between 15 and 20 euros”, he says. “It used to be better in the past, but now people are hurting because of the crisis and they don’t give out as much”. Spain has for the first time conceded it might need a full EU/IMF bailout worth 300 billion euros ($366 billion) if its borrowing costs remain unsustainably high, a euro zone official said. (Susana Vera/Reuters)

People are reflected in mirrors at an entrance of a shopping complex in Tokyo. Japan’s core consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in June from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, in a sign the country is still far from achieving the central bank’s target of 1 percent inflation. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)

A girl with her umbrella waits to cross the road during rainfall in Kathmandu. The monsoon season in Nepal typically lasts from June to August. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A Syrian refugee girl looks out from behind the fence at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

A general view of St Samaans (Simon) Church also known as the Cave Church in the Mokattam village, nicknamed as “Garbage City,” is seen on July 26, 2012 in Cairo. Once a week hundreds gather at the Cave Church and after the prayer, a coptic priest performs exorcisms or healing blessings to some of the believers. The Monastery, named for the10th century Coptic St. Simon the Tanner, is the largest and it has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000 making it the largest church in the Middle East. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)

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